This is not actual historical footage, as filming technology was simply not advanced enough – not to mention its equipment being then far too cumbersome to put plane and pilot at unwarranted risk in combat situations – in the World War I-era to capture this kind of live action imagery, but rather a clipping from the 1927 Paramount Pictures silent war movie Wings. [1] Pictured is an American Curtiss P-1 Hawk standing in for a German Fokker D.VII fighter aircraft.

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